When your break turns out to be more than you bargained for… Hey y’all! I’m back-ish. A couple of weeks ago, I was diagnosed with ITP: Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a rare disorder where your immune system attacks platelets. It can show up out of nowhere or it can be a result of a few factors. Coincidently, it’s ITP Awareness Month, so I want to share my story. For me, my body alerted me with a bruise. The bruise showed up right as I declared my break to recenter. Go figure. I thought I bumped into something. Then another bruise showed up the next day. With freckle-like ones (petechiae) down my arms, legs + thighs the day after that. More showed up on my face. Then a blood blister in my mouth. After a week, I asked a friend if this had ever happened to her and showed her my body. Maybe it was a reaction of some sort. The answer was NO. I decided to go to urgent care. Given my family history of leukemia, I started to think the worst and froze. I noticed I had been more tired lat...